This course will enable students to understand the various cognates of high-modernism, asking: What is modernity? What makes modern literature distinguishable? What modes of cultural transactions made high-modernism possible? Our central focus will be on modern fictions, both long and short, and on modernist poetry. Focusing on form and content, this course will try to impart basic understanding of the thematic and structural peculiarities of the modernist tradition. We will read the works of Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, D.H. Lawrence, and a selection of poems by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, and H. D.